Or, When Muslims Attack (with free copies of the Koran!).
Sorry I’ve been AWOL recently, I’m in the process of moving. I now have internet (yay!1!) but now need to unpack all the boxes of stuff. Then, I promise, real posts.

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Over at Screaming into the Void.

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The practice is not unique to China, but comparitively rare elsewhere.  The real Chinese innovation is the woman-only mosque.  I have mixed feelings about this: like separate spaces elsewhere in the Muslim world, segregation create opportunities for women to become professionals, business owners, academics–and imams–that wouldn’t otherwise exist in institutions or societies dominated by a […]

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I think that a 12 hour day (or at least a day that requires daylight savings time), a 7 day week, a 3-4 week month, and a year that’s dependent on leap years & seconds are hopelessly outdated and rely on cultural history rather than science or necessity (there’s a great idea about 3 day […]

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It’s from a Vatican newspaper, so you know it has to be true.
Monsignor Vittorio Formenti…that Catholics accounted for 17.4 percent of the world population — a stable percentage — while Muslims were at 19.2 percent.
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Turkey’s Political Tensions Weigh on Women’s Heads, where a new law allows headscarves in universities. hat tip
Writers Can’t See Past the Veil, a critique of Muslim women’s recent portrayal in the news.
Using the Koran to feminist ends.
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Obama is constantly being likened to various “terrorist” figureheads: by being called Barack Osama or by intentionally using his middle name, Hussein, to liken him to another of that name. He is also often linked (rightly or wrongly) to Muslims (he was educated in a predominately Muslim country, but not at a religious school). Recently, […]

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When considering the common elements of Islam and Christianity, “Jesus” is perhaps not the first thing to come to mind (at least not to Western Christians). The theological overlap and differences are highlighted in a movie that is being touted as the “Iranian Passion of Christ.” ABC has an interview with film […]

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I don’t really feel that I’ve been pulling my feminist weight around here recently (and that big long post about American Gladiators really rose from my husband’s comment; I expanded it because I wasn’t certain all our dear readers knew what AG was). And that really also means I’ve not been pulling my blogging weight […]

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Here’s a feel good story for today: a skinny Muslim student from Bangladesh intervened as a gang yelling anti-Semitic slogans was pummeling three Jews.  His involvement cost him two black eyes, stitches and what I’m sure must have been considerable pain, but it gained one of the other victims enough time to call the police. […]

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